Dr. Dorothee Mischkowski

Research interests

Prosocial vs. norm-deviant behavior, Legal judgments 

Science Communication

• 2. November 2025:
  Spiegel: „Aber was sollen denn die anderen denken?“
• 5. Juli 2025:
  Der Tagesspiegel: “Besser Streiten. Drei Auswege aus der sozialen Sackgasse”, p. 12

Discussion Papers

• Offer, K., Mischkowski, D., Rahwan, Z., & Engel, C. (2024). Deliberately ignoring unfairness: Responses to uncertain inequality in the ultimatum game. Bonn: MPI Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2024/6
• Bartosch, L., & Mischkowski, D. (2023). The importance of reciprocity: Investigating individual differences underlying conditional cooperation. Bonn: MPI Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2023/1

In-Principle Accepted Registered Reports

• Westfal, M.*, Mischkowski, D.*, Crusius, J. & Genschow, O. (in principle acceptance). Mimicry and prosocial behavior: A direct replication and extension of Van Baaren, Holland, Kawakami, and Knippenberg (2004). Psychological Science. * shared first authorship

Publications

Journal Articles

• Engel, C., Holzhausen, T., & Mischkowski, D.* (in press). Trapped in the past? Routinized rule compliance and the speed of adaptation after rule change. Judgment and Decision Making. *Corresponding author
• Twardawski, M., Mischkowski, D., & Hechler, S. (in press). Severity over source: Understanding transgressors’ motive attributions of punishment. British Journal of Social Psychology.
• Bössel-Debbert, N., Kluge, A. Leising, D., Mischkowski, D., Phan, L.V., Richter, F., Schmitt, M., & Stahl, J. (2026). An analysis of functional relationships between systemic conditions and unethical behavior in German academia. Meta Psychology, 10. 
• Schönbrodt, F. D., Gärtner, A., Frank, M., Gollwitzer, M., Ihle, M., Mischkowski, D., Phan, L. V., Schmitt, M., Scheel, A. M., Schubert, A.-L., Steinberg, U., & Leising, D. (2025). Responsible Research Assessment I: Implementing DORA for hiring and promotion in psychology. Meta Psychology, 9, MP.2024.4601.
• Oeberst, A., Mischkowski, D., Imhoff, R. (2025). Belief-consistent information processing or coherence-based reasoning: Integrating two parsimonious frameworks for biases. European Journal of Social Psychology. 
• Van Doesum, N.J., Van Lange, P.A.M., Mischkowski, D., & Van Dijk, E. (2025). Social mindfulness and the SoMi paradigm: A decade of research on low-cost prosociality. European Review of Social Psycholog, 1-51.
• Offer, K., Mischkowski, D., Rahwan, Z., & Engel, C. (2024). Deliberately ignoring unfairness: Responses to uncertain inequality in the ultimatum game. Communications Psychology, 2(48).
• Funk, F.* & Mischkowski, D.* (2022). Examining consequentialist punishment motives in one-shot social dilemmas. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000459 [data and materials on OSF] *shared first authorship
• Mischkowski, D. (2021). Schau, ich lasse dir die Wahl! – Sozial achtsames Verhalten als Zeichen für Prosozialität und Perspektivübernahme im Alltag. In-Mind Magazin, 4/2021.
• Mischkowski, D., Glöckner, A., & Lewisch, P. (2021). Information search, coherence effects, and their interplay in legal decision making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 87, 102445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102445 [data and materials on OSF]
• Mischkowski, D. (2020). Decision time in social dilemmas - Personality and situational factors moderating spontaneous behavior in first and second order public good games. Doctoral Thesis published at Göttingen State and University Library. [Data and materials on OSF]
• Jekel, M., Fiedler, S., Allstadt Torras, R., Mischkowski, D., Dorrough, A. R., & Glöckner, A. (2020). How to teach open science principles in the undergraduate curriculum — the Hagen Cumulative Science Project. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 19(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475725719868149
• Mischkowski, D., Stone, R., & Stremitzer, A. (2019). Promises, expectations, and social cooperation. The Journal of Law and Economics, 62(4), 687-712. https://doi.org/10.1086/706075
• Mischkowski, D., Thielmann, I., & Glöckner, A. (2019). Minimizing inequality versus maximizing joint gains: On the relation between personality traits and different prosocial motivations. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 153–157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.06.001  [data and materials on OSF]
• Mischkowski, D., Glöckner, A., & Lewisch, P. (2018). From spontaneous cooperation to spontaneous punishment – Distinguishing the underlying motives driving spontaneous behavior in first and second order public good games. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 149, 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.07.001  [data and materials on OSF]
• Mischkowski, D., Thielmann, I., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Think it through before making a choice? Processing mode does not influence social mindfulness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 85–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2017.09.001  [data and materials on OSF]
• Bassarak, C., Leib, M., Mischkowski, D., Strang, S., Glöckner, A., & Shalvi, S. (2017). What provides justification for cheating—producing or observing counterfactuals? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 964–975. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2013  [data and materials on OSF]
• Bouwmeester, S., Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., Aczel, B., Barbosa, F., Bègue, L., Brañas-Garza, P., … Glöckner, A., … Mischkowski, D., … Wollbrant, C. E. (2017). Registered Replication Report: Rand, Greene, and Nowak (2012). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 527–542. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617693624  [data and materials on OSF]
• Mischkowski, D., & Glöckner, A. (2016). Spontaneous cooperation for prosocials, but not for proselfs: Social value orientation moderates spontaneous cooperation behavior. Scientific Reports, 6, 21555. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21555  [data and materials on OSF]
• Mischkowski, D., & Klauk, B. (2011). Egomanen als Risikofaktoren im Unternehmen. Psychologie und Empirie der narzisstischen Persönlichkeitsstörung. [Narcissists as risk factors for companies. Psychology and empiricism of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder]. Personalführung, 2, 16–24.

Book Chapter

• Hippel, S.* & Mischkowski, D.* (2026). Cooperation in social dilemmas. 28 years of research on collective goods. In S. Bechthold & I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Eds.), Law, Behavior, and Decision – Recht, Verhalten und Entscheidung: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Christoph Engel. Nomos. * shared first authorship

Academic distinctions

• Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded by the EU, 2023

• Seedcorn Grant from the Center for Social and Economic Behavior, University of Cologne, for the project “Negotiation designs through the lens of situational affordances”, 2021

• Acquired fundingfrom the University of Vienna for the project “Increasing climate cooperation through institutional change” (with Prof. Dr. Peter Lewisch), 2020

• Junior Start-Up Grant Social Preferences and Envy of the Center for Social and Economic Behavior, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne

• Student Paper Award, 1st Runner-up, 16th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Hong Kong, China, 2015